Singapore on Tuesday said it would tighten its rules governing unvaccinated residents, with officials describing the measure as a pre-emptive step to guard against a “potentially big” wave of infections.As…
A potential Covid-19 outbreak in the Guangdong city of Dongguan is threatening to disrupt the return of quarantine-free travel between Hong Kong and mainland China, with an official over the…
Australia will push ahead with plans to ease Covid-19 restrictions before Christmas, officials said on Tuesday, even as new coronavirus cases in the country’s most populous state reached a 10-week…
Dutch political parties agreed on Monday to form a coalition government that will hand Prime Minister Mark Rutte a fourth term in office, a record 271 days after elections in…
Hong Kong plans to make BioNTech coronavirus booster shots available to all city residents from January, the city’s leader has announced.But Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor, speaking at her…
California will impose a statewide mask mandate in all indoor public spaces as Covid-19 case rates soar, the state’s senior government health official said on Monday as precautions ramp up…
China has reported its first case of the Omicron Covid-19 variant, a patient in Tianjin who returned from overseas last week.The patient was classified as an asymptomatic carrier upon arrival…
China’s eastern coastal province of Zhejiang remains the focus of the country’s latest coronavirus outbreak, with 74 more community cases reported across three cities.Provincial authorities said on Monday that since…
The developer of China’s first approved Covid-19 antibody cocktail said lab tests had found the treatment “holds up well” against the new Omicron variant, though one of the antibodies had…
Hong Kong may need to shorten the waiting time between residents’ second dose of coronavirus vaccine and the follow-up booster to better protect against the new Omicron variant, a top…